Yes, it’s finally here, the “My Site Sucks” Penalty. Google has taken to penalizing sites that just suck. It seems that their guidelines should now include “Your site must have some kind of value to someone”, in order to get listed without a penalty.
In all seriousness, Google seems to be taking duplicate content much more seriously and penalizing a large number of Web sites. See Google’s Guidelines – Quality Guidelines:
Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
You might have already heard of the -30 penalty or the dreaded -90 penalty. You might have even worked … Continue reading Google’s New “My Site Sucks” Penalty
A little while ago I inherited an old Plesk server at my workplace. Of course, nobody knew the root password. So, I had to call the hosting company who housed our dedicated server and get the root password for the box. Unfortunately, nobody knew what the MySQL root password was either. Luckily I discovered there is a way to reset this password.
Following are the steps to reset the Mysql password in Plesk:
1) Login to the Server and load MySQL with the ‘skip-grant-tables’ in /etc/my.cnf like below. Your file will most likely look different.
[mysqld]
default-character-set=latin1
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
set-variable=max_connections=500
skip-grant-tables
2) Log on … Continue reading Reset the MySQL root password.
Some of the things I enjoy about Web design are the many different aspects of involvement. You can literally spend thousands of hours working with Web design, just to find out that you need to learn more. It’s a continuous cycle of learning that always keeps my mind asking more and more questions. It’s also the continuous change that keeps many Web designers from getting bored. There is always something … Continue reading Web Design / SEO / Programming
